The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-05-18

are used to hearing about Wall street kings,
and the estimates of his money run
away up toward s15, 0O0, 200. No
body really knows how rich he is The
nearest approach ever made to the discovery
was when an Atlanta reporter, with enter
prise far beyond his discretion, undertook
to find out by asking the old gentleman
himself. Senator" said he, when he had
got firmly seated in the Senator's Office one
evening, people say you are very wealthy,
and in writing about you | would like 10
say whether you are worth one million or
two
my son." said the old man refiectively.
with mixture of sympathy and benevo-
lence in his tone, "a million dollars is
mighty big lot of money" and that was the
valuable information the young man carried
away with him.
To be seen at his best, the Senator ought
to be pictured on one of the roads near his
plantation, with one foot on the hub of
one-ox cart and his silk hat far enough on
the back of his head to let the farmers fam
lily in the front seat see the full expanse of
his brow. His black coat-tails then bangle
down unaffectedly and his long white beard
furnishes employment for the hand that is
not occupied in holding on to the cart. He
talks that way about the crops and the Bap-
fist meetings to a great many of the farmers
he meets, and seems to like the talking Just
as well as the farmers do. They are all for
him for anything, and will see that he goes
back to the Senate as long as he wishes to.
Senator Brown is the most remarkable
man in the South He has been successful
in everything. He went into the railway
business and became President of the best
line, and, in fact, almost all the lines of his
State. He tried politics, was Governor, and
is United States Senator with life lease.
AS jurist his abilities were unquestioned ;
&c. l.. L..
head Of the establishments in his section as
coal operator he is probably the largest in
dividual owner of paying mines in the
Southern regions. HIS business facilities,
estimated in dollars and cents, are as good
| as those of any man who started with him
and suffered the reverses of the war, and
his religion faculties, estimated by
his influence, extend further, probably,
than those Of any other man in the
Baptist church of the South He is
slow in his movements, but his mind is YER
| satile. To mention his business enterprises
would be to give a list Of nearly all the pay
ing concerns in Georgia and Southeast Ten
nessee. He is head of the Western and At
| lantic railroad, the line from Chattanooga
to Atlanta; the owner of line which trans
| port his own coal the powerful stakeholder
| In the Dade Coal Company; the President of
the Rising Fawn Furnace Company, with
its great tracts of ore; President of the Chat
tanooga Iron Company, and in short, in so
many other enterprises that his name crops
| up in every mention of iron, coal orrailroad
| interest in.the three States. lie is appar-
emily not thoroughly appreciated at Wash
| ington among the noisier takers of the
Senate, but travelling through this country
one is forced TO Know something of his inn
mense power.
| JOHN INMAN AND OTHERS.
Still weather., according to report, than
Brown or Magee, though no longer claim
ing the South as his residence, is John In
man, of New York. who was born, brought
up and made his money in Georgia and then
moved to New York to attend to railroad
| interests. He comes South two or three
times year yet, but controls Southern
railroads from his New York office. He
made his first money in cotton brokerage
| in Atlanta after the war, and then went
| iuto railroad management. He
Is now director in the
Louisville and Nashville, Nash
vile, Chattanooga and ST. Louis, Rich
mond and Danville, Georgia Pacific, East
| Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia, Norfolk
and Western and he is interested practi-
cally in every other Southern line. His
| fortune is estimated pretty well up to 800
600, 900, and people here believe that he has
more money than any man who ever made
| his start in the South
| Other Southern railroad men, known from
| the Ohio to the Gulf, are Milton H. Smith
First Vice President of the Louisville and
Nashville, and M. H. Stahlman, Third Vice
| President of the same road Neither of
| them is rich, however, and their reputation
rests entirely on their abilities as railroad
| managers.